Life Science · Families & Traits
Young Plants & Animals: Like Their Parents
Look closely at animal and plant families. Young living things can share traits with their parents and still be different in some ways.
Lesson plan
Young Plants & Animals: Like Their Parents
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Lesson overview
What students will learn
- Match a young animal or young plant with a likely parent using visible traits.
- Describe one way a young living thing is like its parent and one way it is different.
Key science ideas
- Young animals are the same kind of animal as their parents.
- Young plants are the same kind of plant as their parents.
- Young living things can share visible traits with their parents.
Lesson at a glance
- Grade 1
- 38 min
- ~8 min prep
- 1-LS3-1
- 4 materials
What’s included
- Lesson Plan
- Investigation
- Teacher Slides
- Printable Worksheet
- Teacher Answer Key
- Interactive Activity
- Vocabulary